Review: Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush by John Michael Greer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Like John Michael Greer’s numerous other books on the subject of industrial civilization’s demise, this one reveals its author to be an astonishingly gifted guide to a future that most people refuse to contemplate.
Review: “The Day the Gulf Stream Stopped” by Anthony Owen
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The novel has essentially the same premise as the hit disaster movie from five years earlier, The Day After Tomorrow. The Gulf Stream ocean current, which has long played a crucial role in our planet's climate system, undergoes a sudden collapse driven primarily by human-caused global warming. Ice caps rapidly spread across the northern hemisphere, rendering places like New York City and western and northern Europe uninhabitable to all but the most rugged survivalists.
Two outstanding deindustrial fiction books from yesteryear
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
If you're in the mood for some good deindustrial fiction, I recommend checking out these books by Ann M. Pino.
Review: The Sun by J. Courtney White
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
J. Courtney White's The Sun is at once an entertaining murder mystery and an earnest look at the many crises confronting the American West.
Review: Hubbert’s Peak by Kenneth Deffeyes
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The goal of these books is to provide readers a rudimentary understanding of oil, where it came from and what’s involved in finding and producing it, in order to raise awareness about the peril we face as oil depletes.
Review: Oil, Power, and War by Matthieu Auzanneau
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In Oil, Power, and War, French journalist Matthieu Auzanneau presents a comprehensive, provocative history of humankind's relationship with oil.
Review: Fair-Weather Brother by Pogoat
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Fair-Weather Brother is a portrait of the many environmental, economic and social challenges plaguing India today. The novella’s author, who goes by the pseudonym Pogoat, lives in India and thus knows of these issues firsthand.
Blind Spot and Fuel: a Review of Two Peak Oil Documentaries from 2008
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
These two documentaries on the world oil crisis came out in 2008, a time of growing concern over humankind’s energy future. In the decade since then, public interest in the issue has waned, but the relevance of these films hasn’t...